Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche (Advances in Cultural Psychology)

"This book Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche is unusual in the content and it the format. That's why it requires an unusual look. It has to do with a man, an intellectual journey and with uncountable travels across the world over the last two decades. This man is Jaan Valsiner and here you will read of his restless effort of elaborating ideas while going in different places as invited keynote. This book is mainly about his intellectual trajectory, which touches several places and several and interconnected topics. This book is about the "minutes" of his "bigger" and well organize works and also it is a collection of only apparently fragmented texts (mainly keynote lectures, unpublished or rejected papers) where the readers will see the "step- by-step" elaboration over the years of new ideas, theories, models and even schemas (which Jaan likes very much--maybe especially as he claims basic inability to draw anything)"-- Provided by publisher Cover -1 Series page 2 Beyond the Mind 4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 5 Contents 6 INTRODUCTION: Desire for Basic Science of Human Being 12 SECTION I: Suffering for Science: Where Psychology Fails 18 Chapter 1: Culture in Psychology 20 Chapter 2: Science of Psychology Today 42 COFFEE BREAK 1: Is There any Reason for Suffering—for Science in Psychology? 66 SECTION II: Understanding Dynamic Processes 70 Chapter 3: Facing the Future—Making the Past 72 Chapter 4: Constructing Identity 82 Chapter 5: Reconstructing the Affordance Concept 96 Chapter 6: The Concept of Attractor 114 COFFEE BREAK 2: Why Are Dynamic Perspectives Hard to Take? 132 SECTION III: Dialogical Nature of Being 138 Chapter 7: The Promoter Sign 140 Chapter 8: Temporal Integration of Structures Within the Dialogical Self 164 COFFEE BREAK 3: Dialogical Semiosis in Irreversible Time—Why Make it So Complex? 180 SECTION IV: Aesthetics of Infinities 186 Chapter 9: The Raumaesthetik of Theodor Lipps as a Dialogical Research Program 188 Chapter 10: The Bare Back 216 Chapter 11: Torturous Tension of the Real and the Unreal 234 Chapter 12: Dialogical Relationship Between Open and Closed Infinities 246 Chapter 13: The Flagellating Self 262 COFFEE BREAK 4: The Sublime Movement Between Infinities 282 SECTION V: Regulation in Societal and Interpersonal Processes 286 Chapter 14: Culture Within Development 288 Chapter 15: How Can Psychology in Japan Become a Well-Behaving Rebel? 310 Chapter 16: Culture in Human Development 336 COFFEE BREAK 5: Why Developmental Science? 352 SECTION VI: Cultural Processes Within Society 354 Chapter 17: Civility of Basic Distrust 356 Chapter 18: Higher Education in Focus 380 Chapter 19: Communication and Development 392 Chapter 20: The Clicking and Tweeting Society 414 COFFEE BREAK 6: Relating with Society—By Going Beyond the Practically Useful 432 SECTION VII: Constructing Basic Human Science: Idiographic, Dynamic, Phenomena-Focused 436 Chapter 21: Meanings of “the Data” in Contemporary Developmental Psychology 438 Chapter 22: Listening to the Screaming Knowledge 470 Chapter 23: The Wissenschaft of Social Psychology 496 Chapter 24: Failure Through Success 506 Chapter 25: The Human Psyche on the Border of Irreversible Time 520 COFFEE BREAK 7: Why Do Social Sciences Need to Be Basic? 550 Chapter 26: Conclusion 554 Biographical Notes 562 "This book Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche is unusual in the content and it the format. That's why it requires an unusual look. It has to do with a man, an intellectual journey and with uncountable travels across the world over the last two decades. This man is Jaan Valsiner and here you will read of his restless effort of elaborating ideas while going in different places as invited keynote. This book is mainly about his intellectual trajectory, which touches several places and several and interconnected topics. This book is about the "minutes" of his "bigger" and well organize works and also it is a collection of only apparently fragmented texts (mainly keynote lectures, unpublished or rejected papers) where the readers will see the "step- by-step" elaboration over the years of new ideas, theories, models and even schemas (which Jaan likes very much ... maybe especially as he claims basic inability to draw anything)" .. This book is unusual in its content and format. It has to do with a man, an intellectual journey and with uncountable travels across the world over the last two decades. The man is Jaan Valsiner and here you will read of his restless effort to elaborate ideas across the world. This book is mainly about his intellectual trajectory, touching on different places and interconnected topics.